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For, surely, under light of Heaven, no man had ever before so terribly altered, in so brief a time, as had Roderick Usher.

12 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:06:33 in the radio play.

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- The many unused rooms reaching out with their vast emptiness, like some hideous jungle creeper.

- But, at length, we stood before the door of the master's studio. And there the servant left me. Departed and left me - to go in alone.

- The man across the room, half-reclining on the couch, his back turned toward me, did not hear the opening of the door.

- For the space of several heartbeats, I saw only the deathly pale and ghastly sunken features of a stranger.

- Then, only with difficulty could I recognize, behind that mask, my boyhood friend.

- For, surely, under light of Heaven, no man had ever before so terribly altered, in so brief a time, as had Roderick Usher.

- Oh! Oh, my friend, my friend, you've come at last. Thank God you did come.

- Oh, did you not know I would? Could you not be sure that no long years would ever dim the friendship we shared in youth?

- Hmm. So many things have dimmed. Aha, youth! It seems so long ago. But now you're here and we'll find it, relive it all over again, every glorious moment of it.

- And all these shadows, all these gibbering phantoms that haunt me... they'll be driven out. And then the sun will shine again. And we'll be young again and we'll...

- Ah, oh, but forgive me, my friend. My excessive joy at the sight of you after so many years drives me into a frenzy of talk.

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The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) Sound Clip

The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)Quotes with audio samples from The Fall of the House of Usher - Escape Radio Show episode closely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of horror, aired on 22 October 1947.

Actors: Paul Frees (The Narrator), Ramsey Hill, (Roderick Usher), Sheridan Hall (The Physician)

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